Andrea Alu
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Phone: (512) 471-7939
Fax: (512) 471-2149
Email: alu@mail.utexas.edu
Dr. Alu's Web site
Dr. Andrea Alù received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Roma Tre in Rome, Italy in 2007. He joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Before joining the university, he has been working in the fields of metamaterials and plasmonics at the University of Roma Tre and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has received several international awards in recognition of his research achievements, including the L. B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics, the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics and three URSI Young Scientist Awards.
Dr. Alù’s research specializes in electromagnetic metamaterials and plasmonics, with applications spanning microwaves, infrared and optical frequencies, including nanooptics and nanophotonics, cloaking and transparency, nanocircuits and nanostructures modeling, miniaturized antennas and nanoantennas. His research has significantly contributed to the fields of plasmonic cloaking, optical nanoantennas and nanocircuits and to the theory and modeling of metamaterials. He has published more than 80 journal papers and 11 book chapters.
Research interests:
- Applied electromagnetics
- Metamaterials
- Cloaking
- Plasmonics and nanomaterials
- Nanoantennas and nanocircuits